The first industrial woman. / Deborah Valenze.
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TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995Description: ix, 251p .: ill.; 24 cmISBN: 0195089820LOC classification: HD6135.V35| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents; Introduction: Finding the first industrial woman -- Habits of industry: laboring women and agricultural change,1750-1800 -- The art of women and the business of men: Womens work and the diary industry -- The quarrel with womens work -- spinning and the displacement of female labour -- A new world of work:women workers and the declining status of cottage industry -- Women in the age of malthus:Political economy and the feminization of the female worker -- Recasting women in the workshop of the world: Middle class authority and the female poor -- The other victorian woman: The domestic serevant in the industrial age.
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